Business Advisory
Structure, strategy and internal systems for businesses that have grown past the way they were set up.
Practice 02
Financial Management
Numbers are only valuable when they help you make better decisions. ARAN works with business owners to improve financial visibility, strengthen cash flow, optimise working capital, and build greater financial discipline across the business.
You might recognise this
Three situations this practice exists to answer.
Profitable on paper, short of cash in the bank
The profit and loss looks healthy. The bank balance disagrees, and nobody can explain the gap in a sentence.
You find out the position six weeks late
Month-end closes when the accountant gets to it. By the time you see the numbers, the decision has already been made without them.
Borrowing has become the plan
Limits are renewed, interest compounds, and the underlying cycle that created the need has never been examined.
What ARAN does
The work, in detail.
Cash Flow Management
Rolling cash forecasts built from receivables, payables and commitments, so a shortfall is visible weeks before it arrives.
Working Capital Optimisation
Receivable, payable and inventory cycles measured in days, then shortened one lever at a time with owners assigned.
Debt Restructuring
Facility review, repayment restructuring and lender conversations backed by numbers a credit team will accept.
Inventory Management
Stock control frameworks, ageing analysis and reorder discipline for businesses with capital sitting on the shelf.
Financial Performance Analysis
Product, customer and segment-level profitability, so you know which parts of the business are funding the rest.
Related practices
What this work usually connects to.
Taxation & Regulatory Advisory
GST, income tax, litigation support and the regulatory work that gets expensive the moment it is left alone.
Relevant insights
Written by the people who do this work.
Financial Management
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If you need the accountant on the phone to answer these, the reporting is not doing its job.
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When to hire a CFO, and when you just need better reports
Most businesses that think they need a finance head need a reporting format and a monthly discipline.
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